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Senate f:
blue laws
The state Senate ha
changes in the state's
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mat prohibit the Sunc
Similar legislation is ir
This is a temporary
problem. It's as effecti
with an eyedropper.
Sen. Hey ward McD
4'It's like we're openii
steam kettle. We won'!
next few years to n
passes."
But those next few
quickly. A permanent j
The Legislature shoul
laws altogether.
The blue laws issue i
religious one, and, i
regulated bv thp cnvprr
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This country's traditi
and state has been in<
evidenced by the blue 1;
agree there should be a
state to protect basic
when it comes down t<
practice, it suddenly
government should lea
individual. This was t
stitution was written.
We need to decide
religious freedom or i
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ctnu live Dy tnat aecision
Conserval
lessen OP
OPEC's power hi
weakened in the past f<
States takes the right
could cease to exist.
The key to effectively
OPEC is conservation
indue its power wane, <
can send OPEC into obli
The Western wor
decreased its dependen
1973 Arab oil embargo
sources of oil created a ?
The decrease in derr
prices.
As consumers see the
in their heating bills, (
fuel will likely rise. Thi
m 1 K1 in 1
puunt mubi uuware inG ]
Energy consumers m
gluttonous days of the
flowed as freely as wate
Going back to this tyj
in conditions similar to 1
days.
Conservation and the
sources, however, will
decline of OPEC as a m
scene.
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s passed a bill calling for
blue laws, relaxing rules
lay sale of certain items.
1 the House.
r solution to a permanent
ve as trying to stop a flood
>onald, D-Richland, said,
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t be under pressure in the
lake changes if the bill
years will come all too
solution is what is needed,
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Prayer amen
iditor:
In a time of economic hardship it is
quite easy to understand why our U.S.
n - . - -
congress might overlook many social
issues. One issue, however, that I
believe deserves particular attention
is the proposed voluntary school
prayer amendment.
I am not alone in my support of this
imendment, which was instituted by
Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C. Other
iupporters of the Helms Voluntary
3rayer Amendment Prayer AmenIment
include President Ronald
?f?QCfon Cnn" ? rr"
ucita. ouuiii inurmond, RI.C.,
John East, R-N.C. and Paul
,axalt, R-Nev., and a majority of the
Student says
iitor:
I am writing in response to Brian Divert
issue of the Gamecock. My first point,
anted to get an illogical and confusing ic
tter. Regarding sin you say, "God lov
hough he hates their sins). These so-ca
irt of everyone and are as normal as the
>. It is normal that people make mistakes
id are changing constantly.
God gave us the freedom of action regs
id evils that occur. If this were not true
ive created us differently and free from al
tlieve in made us indenenrtent nf him on
/n lives as we think best. No one is e
cause God has no direct control over ho
'es and, therefore, doesn't rule us like pi
ad a life that is perfectly ideal in his eye*
t accepts us as whole beings, not indiv
irticular "sins."
Concerning homosexuality, if God is this
ing that you represent, then I am surj
ger to try to persuade people to condu
ISC president i
student's praise
ditor:
This past Sunday night I was walking out
id I noticed a flyer from one of the Stu
mdidates posted on the bulletin board. 1
n not a Holderman clone." The flyer wen
'rogatory things about both the pres
overnment and the president of our i
olderman. I didn't think much about it
e student one of the chronic apathetic stu<
A few minutes later, I noticed Holderm<
e Horseshoe toward his office. That got n
30 p.m. on Sunday, and there was Hoi
3rk. What it must be like to have a life su
in start as early as 7 a.m. or before and i
idnight, at the end of the last receptic
?ligated to put in an appearance. It m
amina to get through the week.
Then he sees things like that flyer or he.
Iking or reads a negative editorial in
ticerely doubt he is out to get the studen
ne we gave him the thanks he so ri
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dment draw:
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miiciiuitii peopie.
That's right ? recent polls taken
throughout the country clearly indicate
a majority of Americans want
voluntary school prayer. Gabriel
Brinsky published an article in 1982
that revealed about 80 percent of the
population favored school prayer.
It is hard to imagine that the U.S.
Supreme Court made school prayer
unconstitutional in 1962. I thought the
United States was a nation under God.
Apparently, the Supreme Court did
not think so.
Reagan's proposed school prayer
amendment reads as follows:
"Nothing in this Constitution shall be
; opinion not
ferently than what
> letter in the Feb. fashion. Like God, 3
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10 umi yuu oeings and not v/ant
lea across in your consider to be sir
res all his people everyone.
lied "sins" are a Homosexuality is i
;ir physical make- make if that person I
, learn new things identity. If they are i
concerned with the
irdless of the sins threaten them with i
then God would as saying they will nc
11 sin. The God you You say there is go
d free to lead our free. What if they an
ixempt from sins to be "set free?" Thi
w we conduct our you were actually Gc
lppets, making us is when people degr
>. Because of this, themselves. If I w<
iduals minus our
1 ..UI.Illll.Jf,
mindedness, which, I
accepting, loving
wised you are so
ct their lives diflets
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of my dorm room,
ident Government
rhe flyer read, "I
t on to say several
;ident of Student
iniversity, James
? just considered S-^
Jents. r% wK l
in walking across IJh*
le thinking. It was >fw * /HlAA i*
Iderman going to
ch as his! His day Vf^"l
riot end until after ff p |1 1
>n at which he is fg ..J
ust take a lot of J - LJ^jS^'
ars some students
the Gamecock. I
ts, so maybe it is
chly deserves.
"SfcNPWG* TWO
Richard Hamilton nr.n. k r- k #->
Journalism senior A
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?support
construed to prohibit individual or
pronn nrauor in nnWi/. ~~1~?i~ ?
0 ?r ujvt *a* {JUU1H. acuwiM UI'
other public institutions. No person
shall be required by the United States
or by any state to participate in
prayer."
This sounds fair to me because it
forces absolutely no one to pray. Why
not allow students across America ??
time to give thanks for all the things
the Lord has so graciously provided
for them with voluntary daily prayer?
Christopher Sanders
Journalism sophomore
God's law J
they wish, and in a certain, narrow I
fou should accept individuals as whole
to hastily point out certain qualities you
iful, because they are inevitable in
not a sin, but a free choice that one can
feels comfortable and satisfied with that
lot hurting others, then you shouldn't be
ir lifestyle and shouldn't condemn or
ridiculous and degrading remarks such ^
>t be "delivered." ?
>od news that Jesus can set homosexuals
e happy with themselves and don't want
e sin is your imposing your beliefs as if
?d, which you have no right to do. The sin
ade others and make them feel less of
3re you, I would start preaching acawareness,
understanding and open'm
sorry to say, is something you lack.
Amy Greene
Psychology sophomore *
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